Advanced font development Course

TYPO EINA is a specialised training area in typography. Plus the Masters in Advanced Typography and the design courses of Lettering Design and Layout Design, three new specialised courses will be added Lettering Techniques, Advanced Font Development and Advanced Text Editing.

Next February 3rd starts Advanced font development. The course deals with all aspects of developing an advanced typographic font for publication. It covers five topics that are usually excluded from more traditional typography courses: non-Latin scripts and non-standard characters in fonts, development and organisation of weights, development of programming and groups in OpenType format, unconventional production tools and typesetting for screens screen fonts design.

The teachers are Noe Blanco, Pilar Cano, Joancarles Casasín, Íñigo Jerez, Eduardo Manso and Ferran Milan, and the programme is:

• Planning the font family - Eduardo Manso and Íñigo Jerez
  Using an existing alphabet project, without considering whether it has all the characters (a requirement for accessing this course), this course looks at how the weights in a font family grow and how they are organised. The regular-italic relationship and organised thicknesses. The family project, criteria and tools (modulation, interpolation systems). This is a design course but also has technical criteria. It can be worked on as a project and use the master's degree material or material contributed by students.

• Standard character sets and writing systems - Pilar Cano and Ferran Milan
  The objective is to determine the limits of the Latin alphabet, the groups in which glyphs are are organised according to the most common Unicode standard tables, and to provide an introduction to the possibilities and problems of writing systems in general. There is a theoretical part that will provide the tools for considering the design of types of writing systems unknown to the participants, and they will be asked to incorporate the design of a writing system other than Latin as a practical task in the project.

• Production tools - Joan Carles Casasín
  Font editing, interpolation, kerning, production, scripts, extensions, specific features of OpenType, generation and testing tools with editing software for alternative fonts to those used conventionally. Introduction to specific tools covering the process from drawing and final generation of the font with professional quality.

• Type per screen - Noe Blanco
  Introduction to automatic and manual hinting. Generation of webfonts and other formats.